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Sister Wives star Christine Brown opened up about her habit to oxycodone after an harm, and shared why she didn’t reveal it on digicam. Christine additionally expressed her hope that her new memoir will assist individuals in “relationships the place they really feel lower than.”
Christine was the third of Kody Brown’s 4 wives, however she left him in 2021 – 25 years after their non secular wedding ceremony. She was the primary spouse to depart, adopted by Janelle Brown and Meri Brown. Now, Robyn Brown is the final remaining spouse.
In her lately launched memoir, Sister Spouse, Christine addressed her habit to oxycodone.
“Simply earlier than Maddie and Caleb acquired married [in 2016], I blew out my knee. I tore my ACL and my meniscus, and I needed to have surgical procedure. [My husband at the time] Kody [Brown] introduced me dwelling from the hospital after which ready to depart,” she stated. “‘What do I must do?’ I requested, questioning about meds and aftercare. ‘I don’t know,’ he stated. ‘They didn’t provide you with any directions?’ ‘No,’ he stated. However he had gotten my prescription for ache drugs crammed, and he handed me the bag.”
“My mother and daughters stayed to assist. I had by no means taken oxycodone earlier than — if one thing damage, I took ibuprofen or aspirin,” she went on. “Actual ache signifies that one thing’s mistaken, and if I take one thing that masks the issue, I’m not going to repair the issue, so I usually keep away from it. With the surgical procedure, I had already fastened the issue, and it damage, so I took my meds.”
Christine stated she felt “achy from head to toe,” and it was additionally like she “had the flu.”
“[So I] took an oxycodone, and all of the signs went away,” she stated. “It gave me the very best excessive I ever felt. I used to be on high of the world, and I might accomplish all the things!”
“I simply handled it privately [off camera] as a result of on the time, it was completely devastating,” she added, talking to the outlet. “It was very troublesome, and regardless that I used to be on it for a month, the results of it lasted not less than six. I didn’t really feel regular … I didn’t really feel okay for thus lengthy. So, as soon as I used to be performed and I felt higher, I simply felt good to really feel higher. And I spotted that with writing the e-book, that’s one thing I didn’t return and revisit was the habit to oxycodone.”
She shared that “oxy is a horrible, addictive factor when you don’t want it.”
“Since I can get hooked on issues simply, it appears it’s simply greatest to keep away from that sort of factor,” stated the star. “However I simply wasn’t in a spot the place I might speak about it on the present. I simply actually couldn’t. It was so private, and it was embarrassing, and I didn’t know if I needed individuals to know that about me.”
As for her e-book, Christine stated she hopes each women and men can relate to her story.
“I feel there are lots of people that have been in conditions like mine, women and men, and folks simply on the whole who have been in, are in relationships the place they really feel lower than, or they really feel like their opinion doesn’t actually matter, or they really feel mistreated,” she stated. “I really feel like there’s so many individuals like that, and I feel general, what I’d love is for individuals to appreciate that you simply acquired to seek out your self, and you bought to just remember to dwell life for your self … You bought to make your selections.”
“There have been so many occasions the place I’d simply sort of associate with the move, and I didn’t actually spend a number of time attending to know what I actually needed,” she defined. “It was once I began realizing what I actually needed was once I was like, ‘I don’t assume I’m going to seek out it right here’ … I feel I’ve to make some decisions right here that I’ve to depart. However there was a very long time the place I spotted that I wanted to make life what I needed it to be, however the decisions weren’t essentially mine. I needed to discover my very own decisions.”
